Farmers are the backbone of our nation’s food security and rural economies. Having spent my life working in and advocating for the agriculture industry, I am familiar with the many challenges it faces. Today, the newest threat to the industry is not a pest or a weed, but our greatest foreign adversary.

Through my role on the House Appropriations Committee and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, China’s efforts to quietly buy up American farmland over the last decade have become one of my top issues. In that spirit, we recently secured major victory in the fight to keep the Chinese Communist Party out of our food supply chains.

On July 10, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Treasury announced a landmark Memorandum of Understanding to have the secretary of Agriculture join the Committee on the Foreign Investment in the United States. This action implements Section 787 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 directing the secretary to be added, a provision I secured as a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug........

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